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Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust’s mission is to provide safe and compassionate care, every time with a focus on providing right care, right place, right time, first time.

As a pioneering Trust we bring together acute and community services – delivering them when and where our patients will most benefit and we work hard to deliver this. We have one of the best stroke services in the region, some of the lowest infection rates in the country and excellent surgical outcomes, but we are always striving to do better.

Working together with our community we are continually looking for innovative ways to improve our performance and provide our patients with the service that they deserve and our staff can be proud of.

The Trust’s Tissue Viability team have been shortlisted in two categories at this year’s Journal of Wound Care annual awards for their work in integrating with GP practices and nursing homes working across the Integrated Care System (ICS).
The categories are:
Cost-effective Wound Management Award category
Innovation in Chronic Wound Healing Award category

To celebrate Random Acts of Kindness Week, Trust staff were encouraged to get involved in a range of activities to show their appreciation of colleagues and the wider community. The week launched with a video in which staff and patients thanked colleagues, teams or departments for their support. The film also included a message of thanks from Chief executive, Neil Macdonald: “I’ve just spent the last two weeks visiting all our sites across the county and I just want to say a big thank you to all our staff. I’ve seen some amazing things, some outstanding practice and some humblingly good patient care, so I just want to say a big thank you from me on behalf of the board.” The response has been overwhelming and creative with staff making handmade gems for colleagues, managers taking their teams for lunch and the library team waiving overdue library fines for a day. In addition to this, staff gifted things to each other and donated items to local charities.

Norovirus is currently circulating. To help prevent the spread of infection please do not visit our hospitals if you've experienced norovirus symptoms. Only 1 visitor per patient per day and no children allowed on adult wards at Stoke Mandeville Hospital.

The Trust is currently imposing restrictions on the number of visitors to our adult wards at Stoke Mandeville Hospital. This is a preventative measure to limit the potential risk of norovirus infection.